Childhood friends Han Jung Suh (Park Shin Hye from Miracle in Cell No. 7, The Heirs, Flower Boy Next Door, Heartstrings, You’re Beautiful, Cyrano Agency) and Cha Song Joo (Baek Sung Hyun from Big, Queen Insu, Damo) shares a friendship that blossoms into puppy love. However, things turn against them when Jung Suh’s father, Han Soo Ha (Ha Jae Young from Glass Slippers) marries actress Tae Mi Ra (Lee Whee Hyangfrom All About Marriage) and Jung Suh adapts to a new life with her double-faced stepmother and her step siblings, Han Yoo Ri (Park Ji Mi), a manipulative and bratty girl and Han Tae Hwa (Lee Wan from Let’s Go to the Beach), a loner. Soon Yoo Ri gets jealous at Jung Suh for excelling in school and being liked by everyone but what Yoo Ri envies the most is the undivided attention Jung Suh receives from Song Joo. To get what she wants, Yoo Ri connives with her mother who jeopardizes Jung Suh’s plans of studying in the US with Song Joo. On the other hand, Jung Suh and Song Joo succeed in confessing their feelings for each other shortly before Song Joo leaves for US. Meanwhile, Tae Mi Ra and Yoo Ri hinders all communication attempts between Jung Suh and Song Joo, while Tae Hwa eventually warms up to Jung Suh but mistook her kind sisterly gestures as a sign of romantic feelings.

After completing his college education, a grown-up Song Joo (Kwon Sang Woo) returns to Korea and Jung Suh (portrayed by Choi Ji Woo) rushes to meet him. However, Yoo Ri (Kim Tae Hee) tries to intercept the reunion and out of panic, accidentally runs Jung Suh over with her car. To cover up for the accident, Yoo Ri makes it appear that Jung Suh died but actually takes Jung Suh to the house of Yoo Ri’s father and begs him to keep the accident a secret. Meanwhile, Tae Hwa (Shin Hyun Joon) rushes to Jung Suh’s side and upon knowing she sustained amnesia, Tae Hwa takes advantage of the situation and takes his father and Jung Suh to another town where Tae Hwa and Jung Suh assumed new identities as Chul Soo and Kim Ji Soo.

Five years later, Ji Soo and Chul Soo become lovers while Song Joo and Yoo Ri are soon to be engaged but Song Joo still hangs on to memories of Jung Suh. On the day of Song Joo and Yoo Ri’s supposed engagement party, Song Joo gets a glimpse of Ji Soo and goes around town to see her up close. In the following days, Song Joo succeeds at approaching Ji Soo and tries his best to make Ji Soo remember her true identity.

Filming Location

Majority of the scenes from Stairway to Heaven is filmed at Lotte World, known for its huge indoor amusement park.

International Promotion and Broadcast

Stairway to Heaven earned widespread popularity in several Asian countries and as far as US and Latin American countries of Chile, Peru and Ecuador.